Best Retreat Qoutes
372 Retreat quotes by 311 unique authors
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Routine is a ground to stand on, a wall to retreat to; we cannot draw on our boots without bracing ourselves against it.
— Henry David Thoreau
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These (literary) studies are the food of youth, and consolation of age; they adorn prosperity, and are the comfort and refuge of adversity; they are…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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How readily the bluebirds become our friends and neighbors when we offer them suitable nesting retreats!
— John Burroughs
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Never stop because you are afraid - you are never so likely to be wrong. Never keep a line of retreat: it is a wretched…
— Fridtjof Nansen
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Once women begin to question the inevitability of their subordination and to reject the conventions formerly associated with it, they can no longer retreat to…
— Christopher Lasch
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Dont retreat. Retweet!
— Ai Weiwei
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Maybe poets express more directly a sense of sympathy for other human beings. Painting is a little bit more of a retreat from human beings…
— Francesco Clemente
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Tell yourself that the world is outside, that it's not to be hidden from you, that you are going to thrust yourself forward and be…
— Stella Adler
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A masterful retreat is itself a victory.
— Norman Vincent Peale
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Nobody tells the history of marijuana and its prohibition like Russ Belville does. He has a special talent for presenting scholarship in a remarkably engaging…
— Ethan Nadelmann
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Everything you say; every thought you entertain; and everything you do has a direction, which serves as an advance or a retreat in respect to…
— Gary Ryan
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Men seek retreats for themselves, houses in the country, sea-shores, and mountains; and thou too art wont to desire such things very much. But this…
— Marcus Aurelius
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The heavy casualties, the constant retreat, the shortage of food and munitions, the difficulty of receiving reinforcements... all this had a very bad effect on…
— Vasily Chuikov
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I like the idea of going to one of those retreats where you don't speak - like, silence for five days.
— Madonna Ciccone
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I will be as harsh as truth, and uncompromising as justice... I am in earnest, I will not equivocate, I will not excuse, I will…
— William Lloyd Garrison
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I can understand how some people might resent me for having the audacity to continue playing music, but it'd take a lot more than that…
— Dave Grohl
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Right before I decided to come out, I went on a spiritual retreat called 'Changing the Inner Dialogue of Your Subconscious Mind.' I'd never been…
— Ellen DeGeneres
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Cows are my passion. What I have ever sighed for has been to retreat to a Swiss farm, and live entirely surrounded by cows -…
— Charles Dickens
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My center is giving way, my right is in retreat; situation excellent. I shall attack.
— Ferdinand Foch
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We are looking for happiness and running after it in such a way that creates anger, fear and discrimination. So when you attend a retreat,…
— Nhat Hanh
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Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of…
— Napoleon Hill
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I would like a UK fully engaged in Europe, but I can't decide in place of the British. I see that for the moment they…
— Francois Hollande
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Never retreat. Never explain. Get it done and let them howl.
— Benjamin Jowett
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I never retreat from films, as it were, I simply indulge in other interests, that's all.
— Daniel Day-Lewis
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I never stopped studying Buddhism. In the past few years, in between movies, I do a retreat.
— Jet Li
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